The index seeks to ensure high-quality products and sustainable livelihood for farmers, social welfare, animal health, environment and climate change adaptation activities.
The projects will pay special attention to hi-tech applications, technology transfer in intensive aquaculture, international cooperation, human resources training and food safety management. The locality focuses on building training courses on applying GAP, SGF 1000 CM, HACCP, ISO standards to introduce to farmers, Pham Van Quynh, director of the municipal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said.
To realize the project, from now to 2020, Can Tho should use source of land and water surface reasonably, mobilize stakeholders to join hands in aquaculture, improve infrastructures for aquaculture and developing agriculture sector, improve irrigation systems for planting rice, vegetables, fruit trees and fish farming.
Besides, Can Tho will build fish hatcheries and farming areas of pangasius and giant freshwater prawn in Thot Not, Vinh Thanh, Co Do, Phong Dien, O Mon districts and expand its aquaculture area to 26,000 hectares by 2020. The locality also build further tens of shrimp, finfish and aquatic first grade hatcheries which will supply 2.3 billion of seeds including 240 million of giant freshwater prawn seeds annually.
Until 2016, fish processing capacity by the locality will be raised to 140,000 MT per year. Between 2016 and 2020, the figure will amount to 300,000 MT per year. By 2020, seafood export revenue by the locality is expected to hit more than US$7 billion.
Currently, Can Tho is establishing the first grade center for aquatic seed with the area of 214.7 hectares in Thanh My commune, Vinh Thanh district. Annually, the center projects to supply 2 billion of seeds including pangasius, climbing perch, marble goby, tilapia, hybrid catfish, giant freshwater prawn to farmers in the locality and the Mekong Delta.
The center will research and preserve rare and precious aquatic genes of the Mekong Delta and improve broodstock's quality, apply modern science in heredity, seed selecting and seed multiplication.
Can Tho's fish production for this year is projected at 180,000 MT on the superficies of 13,500 hectares.
Through May 2014, the city's fish production topped 55,000 MT, dominated by pangasius (44,000 MT) on the farming area of 6,000 hectares.
It has so far exported 41,000 MT of processed seafood, worth nearly US$170 million.
Having identified its weakness in 2023, entering the first quarter of 2024, Vietnam's shrimp industry has undergone a clear change, reflected through increases in exports to major markets.
It is necessary to develop more detailed and consistent regulations on seafood production for export in line with the implementation of solutions towards sustainable and responsible fishing practices.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) After increasing to the highest level in 2022, Canada's tuna imports in 2023 dropped to the lowest level in the past 10 years, reaching 35 thousand tons, down 24% over the year. Canada is currently one of the 15 largest tuna import markets in the world.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Chile, one of the countries participating in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), has tended to increase tuna imports from Vietnam in the past 3 years. According to statistics from Vietnam Customs, this South American country imported nearly 3 million USD of tuna products from Vietnam in the first 2 months of 2024, an increase of 58% over the same period in 2023.
Economic and social development activities, overexploitation, pollution, diseases, and climate change have adversely affected the ecological environment, leading to a severe decline or the extinction of many precious indigenous aquatic species.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) The prices of pangasius fingerlings and raw pangasius in ponds fell in March, following steady increases in the first two months of this year.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In February 2024, the average export price of Vietnamese pangasius to markets increased by 4%, although the volume decreased by 40% compared to the previous month.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) There was a 6% decline in Vietnam's pangasius exports to Brazil in February 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, with the total value reaching 6 million USD.
(vasep.com.vn) In the first two months of 2024, Poland—which ranks as Vietnam's fourth-largest EU supplier of tuna—became a noteworthy market. Vietnam's tuna exports value to Poland increased by 786% in comparison to the same period last year, totaling over $2 million USD and contributing about 2% of the country's overall tuna exports revenue.
Regulations on the protection and sustainable development of aquatic resources, Việt Nam's legitimate rights at sea in accordance with international law and the achievements that the country has carved out to remove the European Union’s “yellow card” will be brought closer to local people.
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